Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in ‘%desktop-services’?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> skribis:

> I would welcome some improvement here, or insight on my part.  Since I
> moved away from desktop environments, wicd has not not worked for me and
> I have been using ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and dhclient manually.  That
> has removed my dependency on something like NM and it's apparent
> inherent magic...but it's rather painful.

FWIW I use Wicd with ‘wicd-cli’ (GTK+).  It works OK, but Wicd is not
very smart when it comes to reconnecting, detecting new networks, etc.

Ludo’.